Yakov Kipnis

1.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
15 papers, 733 citations indexed

About

Yakov Kipnis is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yakov Kipnis has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 733 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Materials Chemistry and 2 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Yakov Kipnis's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (7 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (4 papers) and Heat shock proteins research (3 papers). Yakov Kipnis is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (7 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (4 papers) and Heat shock proteins research (3 papers). Yakov Kipnis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Switzerland. Yakov Kipnis's co-authors include David Baker, Justas Dauparas, Samuel J. Pellock, Dan S. Tawfik, Ivan Anishchenko, Brian Coventry, Gyu Rie Lee, Doug Tischer, Haim Leader and Joel L. Sussman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yakov Kipnis

15 papers receiving 723 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

De novo design of luciferases using deep learning

2023 241 citations Hsien‐Wei Yeh, Christoffer Norn et al. Nature profile →
Improving Protein Expression, Stability, and Function with ProteinMPNN

2024 121 citations Kiera H. Sumida, Reyes Núñez‐Franco et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers

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Murat Sünbül Germany

Rebecca Blomberg Switzerland

Dušan Petrović Sweden

Christopher Pfleger Germany

Heidi K. Privett United States

Donald Doyle United States

Christian Arlt Germany

Hee‐Sung Park South Korea

Lars Giger United States

Sebastian Radestock Germany

Murat Sünbül Germany

Yakov Kipnis

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Countries citing papers authored by Yakov Kipnis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yakov Kipnis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yakov Kipnis

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yakov Kipnis. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yakov Kipnis based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yakov Kipnis. Yakov Kipnis is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Anishchenko, Ivan, Yakov Kipnis, Indrek Kalvet, et al.. (2025). Modeling protein–small molecule conformational ensembles with PLACER. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(45). e2427161122–e2427161122. 3 indexed citations

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Ahern, Woody, Jason Yim, Doug Tischer, et al.. (2025). Atom-level enzyme active site scaffolding using RFdiffusion2. Nature Methods. 23(1). 96–105. 2 indexed citations

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Sumida, Kiera H., Reyes Núñez‐Franco, Indrek Kalvet, et al.. (2024). Improving Protein Expression, Stability, and Function with ProteinMPNN. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(3). 2054–2061. 121 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yeh, Hsien‐Wei, Christoffer Norn, Yakov Kipnis, et al.. (2023). De novo design of luciferases using deep learning. Nature. 614(7949). 774–780. 241 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kipnis, Yakov, Anastassia A. Vorobieva, Gabriella Reggiano, et al.. (2022). Design and optimization of enzymatic activity in a de novo β‐barrel scaffold. Protein Science. 31(11). e4405–e4405. 15 indexed citations

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Weitzner, Brian D., et al.. (2019). A computational method for design of connected catalytic networks in proteins. Protein Science. 28(12). 2036–2041. 30 indexed citations

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Liu, Yu, Xin Zhang, Gira Bhabha, et al.. (2014). Small molecule probes to quantify the functional fraction of a specific protein in a cell with minimal folding equilibrium shifts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(12). 4449–4454. 19 indexed citations

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Liu, Yu, Xin Zhang, Gira Bhabha, et al.. (2014). De Novo-Designed Enzymes as Small-Molecule-Regulated Fluorescence Imaging Tags and Fluorescent Reporters. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136(38). 13102–13105. 19 indexed citations

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Bjelic, Sinisa, Yakov Kipnis, Ling Wang, et al.. (2013). Exploration of Alternate Catalytic Mechanisms and Optimization Strategies for Retroaldolase Design. Journal of Molecular Biology. 426(1). 256–271. 28 indexed citations

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Kipnis, Yakov & David Baker. (2012). Comparison of designed and randomly generated catalysts for simple chemical reactions. Protein Science. 21(9). 1388–1395. 15 indexed citations

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Khare, Sagar D., Yakov Kipnis, Per Greisen, et al.. (2012). Computational redesign of a mononuclear zinc metalloenzyme for organophosphate hydrolysis. Nature Chemical Biology. 8(3). 294–300. 176 indexed citations

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Kipnis, Yakov, Eynat Dellus-Gur, & Dan S. Tawfik. (2012). TRINS: a method for gene modification by randomized tandem repeat insertions. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 25(9). 437–444. 19 indexed citations

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Papo, Niv, Yakov Kipnis, Gilad Haran, & Amnon Horovitz. (2008). Concerted Release of Substrate Domains from GroEL by ATP Is Demonstrated with FRET. Journal of Molecular Biology. 380(4). 717–725. 15 indexed citations

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Frank, Gabriel A., et al.. (2008). Design of an Optical Switch for Studying Conformational Dynamics in Individual Molecules of GroEL. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 19(7). 1339–1341. 8 indexed citations

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Kipnis, Yakov, Niv Papo, Gilad Haran, & Amnon Horovitz. (2007). Concerted ATP-induced allosteric transitions in GroEL facilitate release of protein substrate domains in an all-or-none manner. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(9). 3119–3124. 22 indexed citations

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